It’s an exciting time for the Social Web movement: both WordPress and Ghost are experimenting with the ActivityPub protocol, Flipboard is federating their magazines across the network, and Newsmast is doing some really interesting development work regarding curation and content discovery. As we start to put these things together, it’s not hard to see an extremely compelling vision of how publishing and discovery can work here.
As writers and publications continue to look towards free and open alternatives to platforms like Substack, the opportunity looks ripe for this network to fill in as a fantastic alternative. The ability to maintain